Responsibility, n. A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one’s neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
AMBROSE BIERCEA wedding is a ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.
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Divorce: a resumption of diplomatic relations and rectification of boundaries.
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Optimism – the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.
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Democracy is four wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
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MIND, n. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavour to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with.
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Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.
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He who thinks with difficulty believes with alacrity.
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Aborigines, n.: Persons of little worth found cumbering the soil of a newly discovered country. They soon cease to cumber; they fertilize.
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Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
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Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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Fidelity – a virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
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Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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ARMOR, n. The kind of clothing worn by a man whose tailor is a blacksmith.
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PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.
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Sweater, n.: garment worn by child when its mother is feeling chilly.
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They say that hens do cackle loudest when there is nothing vital in the eggs they have laid.
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